Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of illegal campaign financing over his failed 2012 re-election bid by a Paris court on Thursday. A Paris court sentenced Sarkozy to one-year jail term. It was the second guilty verdict this year for Sarkozy, who led France from 2007 to 2012 and retains influence among conservatives despite falling from grace over his legal woes. Sarkozy has denied wrongdoing and will appeal against the sentence. He told the court in June that he had not been involved in the logistics of his campaign for a second term as president nor in how money was spent during the election run-up. Watch this report for more.
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